High Speed Internet

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Since you're now connected to the Net full-time, highly recommend you have an effective firewall. I use ZoneAlarm, downloaded from Zone Labs (zonelabs.com) and really appreciate the total control that it provides the user. Lots of configurable features, like alerting you when another computer is attempting to access your machine (you'd be amazed how often that happens). I think it was about $30 for the pro version (was free for the private user until recently).